Introducing Business Process Server Web Services

Web services is an Internet technology that enables businesses to provide their services, and to discover the services of other businesses. These services are self-contained, self-describing modular applications that businesses can publish, discover and invoke across the Web. This publish-discovery mechanism facilitates B2B communication by enabling business applications to directly connect to other business applications.

Web Services create Internet-based applications sharing common components for more efficient communication across the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web Consortium has defined a Web Service as:

Business Process Server Web Services obtain information about the Business Process Server applications and convert it to a Web Service. Its definition can be discovered by other software systems through service registries. These systems may then interact with the Web Service in a manner prescribed by its definition, using XML-base messages conveyed by Internet protocols.